Helle Virkner
1925-09-15 ( 99 years old ) in Gammel Rye, Aarhus, Denmark

Helle Genie Lotinga was born in Aarhus to Jewish rentier Moritz Lotinga and Ellen Larsine (née Rasmussen). Her parents divorced when she was 5, at which point she moved with her mother from Old Rye to Copenhagen. Her paternal family escaped to Sweden doing the occupation of Denmark in 1943. Helle changed her last name from Lotinga to Virkner in 1944. Helle Virkner was married three times. First to actor William Rosenberg (1944–1949), then to actor Ebbe Rode (1949–1958), and her third marriage was to the then Foreign Minister of Denmark and later Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag (1914–1978), with whom she had one child, daughter Astrid Helene 'Søsser' Krag, a journalist and former model. Krag also had a soon from a previous relationship named Jens Christian Stephan Krag. Helle and Søsser lived together in sheltered housing in Charlottenlund in the last years of Helle's life.

Movies

Trækfugle 2001-11-26
The Kingdom II 1997-11-01
The Kingdom 1994-11-24
Topsy Turvy 1983-10-06
Kassen stemmer 1976-08-02
The Only Way 1970-01-01
Old Maids 1966-07-29
Mor bag rattet 1965-11-05
Landmandsliv 1965-10-01
Peters landlov 1963-06-27
Cirkus Buster 1961-10-09
Englen i sort 1957-11-18
Kispus 1956-05-06
Himlen er blaa 1954-03-20
Sunstroke 1953-03-09
Hvor er Far 1948-10-30
Otte akkorder 1944-11-04